Dutch Hand Saw
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Hand Saw
18th Century
(Davistown Museum)

John Cuﬀ, London Optician, and His Assistant
by Johann Zoﬀ any 1772
(The British Museum))

Hand Saw marked “Lambert”
18th Century
(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

Saw Handle from the Wreck of the Machault, Sunk at the 1760 Battle of Restigouche
In the Bayof Gaspé in Quebec Province
From: Sullivan, Catherine; "Legacy of the Machault; A Collection of 18th century Artifacts."
Studies in Archaeology Architecture and History. Parks Canada. Canadian Government Publishing Centre,
Supply and Services Canada. Hull, Quebec. 1986)

Saw Handle from the Wreck of the Sloop Industry, Sunk of the Coast of Florida in 1760
From: Franklin, Marianne; "Blood and Water; The Archaeological Excavation and Historical Analysis of the
Wreck of the Industry, a North American Transport Sloop Chartered by the British Army at the end of the Seven
Years War: British Colonial Navigation and Trade to Supply Spanish Florida in the Eighteenth Century."
Dissertation, Texas A & M University. 2006

Hand Saw
18th Century
(Colonial Williamsburg)

Hand Saw, Panel
c. 1740 - 1790
(Colonial Williamsburg)

Saw Handle Recovered from the Wreck of the General Carleton of Whitby 1785
From: Ossowski, Waldemar, ed.; "The General Carleton Shipwreck, 1785."
Archaeological Research of the Polish Maritime Museum. Vol. 1. Maritime Museum in Gdansk. Gdansk, Poland. 2008

Hand Saw
Dated 1789
(Museum of London)

“Saw - Setter or Harmoonic Scarecrow - Music hat charms to sett the teeth on edge.”
Late 18th Century
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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